It's not very hard to be clever. It's far harder to be simple, obvious, and meaningful.
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I think there is a basic comfort in clever people who know things.
It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.
If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
In today's world, we all live with the burden of feeling that anything is possible if we're only clever enough, smart enough, work hard enough.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.
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